Greetings - I hope all of you who celebrated Easter had a wonderful day full of bunnies and chocolate. I didn't get any chocolate easter bunnies, but I did get a wonderful e-card from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dawnie1970 - thanks!!!!
I thought I'd do a proper post today. It's been so long since I have written anything really resembling an update, and I've so much to write about. This may turn out to be a very random, very long-winded post, so bear with me.
Friday, the Chicago area was hit with a wonderful "welcome to Spring" mini (and very slushy, wet) snowstorm. I say mini because it dumped and dumped for hours from early Friday until early Saturday, probably a good 3-5 inches where I live and work; but almost all of the snow had melted by late Saturday afternoon. Saturday was gloriously sunny and even, dare I say, warm (well, not warm for you folks in warmer climates like Florida and California, but warm for us here in the midwest). Today was very nice too. But to back up a bit, on Thursday, the day before our glorious storm, and just in time for colder temps, the heater on my car decided that it wouldn't work properly - it only worked when I put it on the highest setting. So Friday morning I dragged my grouchy self out of bed at 6 a.m. and drove through the heavily falling snow to my mechanic's - they were supposed to be open at 7:30, but the guys were both late. Bad traffic I guess. They arrived at 7:45, and thankfully got the part, and I was on my way to work by 9 a.m - with a working heater - yay! The snow fell and fell all day, and work was boring and slow; I stopped on the way home for Indian food and red wine, and had a nice night watching Hot Fuzz and sleeping early.
oh and by the way, Hot Fuzz is quite a funny movie - not as perfectly clever and hilarious as Shawn of the Dead , the other venture by the same directing and acting team, but still entertaining. I was a bit surprised when it totally changed it's direction midway through and became a complete bloodbath (with some quite comically gruesome decapitations too); it started out so humble and quiet, and then ended with quite a bang. I wish I could watch it again because I missed quite a bit of dialogue (those darn British accents - LOL), and it did have some very laugh out loud scenes that I want to see again. I'm looking forward to Simon Pegg in his new movie (directed by David Schwimmer of Friends), called Run Fatboy Run - and I just read that Simon Pegg is going to play Scotty in the Star Trek movie! Boy that's going to be quite the cast, with Zachary Quinto playing Spock and Eric Bana (who cares what he plays, we can just look at him, which is just FINE), and Winona Ryder, and even Leonard Nimoy!
But I digressed - I did warn you that my post would be random like this.
anyway, after the snowstorm, things settled down. And this is what it looked like at our apartment complex on Saturday morning
Pretty huh?
oh but it's not so pretty after it melts and leaves black slush and piles of dirty snow around which you need to walk to get to your car. fun stuff. when is summer coming?
okay what else is going on...
last week I had my "review" at work with my new "supervisor." She's about 25 years old, a well-known party girl who is very involved with a guy in the criminal department (oh, office romances), and is a total twit. How did she become my supervisor? Maybe I can write about it on another day, but suffice to say, it's very silly to report to her, and to have her reviewing my performance when she can't even spell the names of our clients. Seriously! But the review itself was painless. Of course they think that my work is fantastic, and they couldn't survive without me, and they want me to do lots of projects and take on more responsibility. Why then are they giving me only a 3 percent raise? I guess I can be happy for any raise, but I'm still not earning what I deserve with my experience and my education. My job is a joke, but given the economy and how difficult it is to find another, I'll stick with it for a while, until I have more ability to search for something in the legal field.
I got so organized this weekend, getting my tax forms ready to mail (evil IRS!!!), getting my passport form filled out (passport expires next month and who knows when I'll travel again), getting my apartment cleaned and all my clothes washed, and even buying new clothes at Old Navy (well three new shirts, which were all dirt cheap!). today I met my friend Sarah for lunch at Houlihan's - I ate way way too much including a banana bread pudding for dessert, had a yummy strawberry and basil lemonade (with gin), and then bought two books at Border's (both on sale) - one by my favorite author Paolo Coelho called "The Devil and Miss Prym" and one by Haruki Murakami called "Kafka on the Shore" which is supposed to be amazing (and disturbing).
My college is on Spring Break this week, so no class tomorrow. I do have an assignment to email my teacher,and another due next week, so it's not a real break. But it's nice to have a night off. We have a major project due at the end of the semester, which will involve visiting the law libraries of a big law school downtown (our library is really limited), so that will begin after the break. I'm a bit anxious about it, but I think I'll do fine. Writing is easy for me. But it's the research that takes time and skill. Wish me luck!
I've been watching lots of movies lately and not writing about them. I watched David Lynch's Inland Empire about a month ago and was going to write about it so thatgalactic_jack could help me to interpret it's meanings. But I got so busy and distracted that I never did write about it. I'm so lazy! I still plan to write about it though - and I want to write my feelings about No Country for Old Men, Rendition, Reign Over Me, and The Simpson's Movie , all of which I enjoyed to some extent. Anyone interested in movie reviews, tune in tomorrow (if I'm that organized)...
Finally I have some music recommendations: Radiohead's "In Rainbows" (which I know is quite old by now) is amazing!! and Herbie Hancock's tribute to Joni Mitchell "The River: The Joni Letters" is a work of art. Great stuff.
well that's about it. I've got to go and call my sister, do my assignment, and sleep.
dawnie1970 - thanks!!!! I thought I'd do a proper post today. It's been so long since I have written anything really resembling an update, and I've so much to write about. This may turn out to be a very random, very long-winded post, so bear with me.
Friday, the Chicago area was hit with a wonderful "welcome to Spring" mini (and very slushy, wet) snowstorm. I say mini because it dumped and dumped for hours from early Friday until early Saturday, probably a good 3-5 inches where I live and work; but almost all of the snow had melted by late Saturday afternoon. Saturday was gloriously sunny and even, dare I say, warm (well, not warm for you folks in warmer climates like Florida and California, but warm for us here in the midwest). Today was very nice too. But to back up a bit, on Thursday, the day before our glorious storm, and just in time for colder temps, the heater on my car decided that it wouldn't work properly - it only worked when I put it on the highest setting. So Friday morning I dragged my grouchy self out of bed at 6 a.m. and drove through the heavily falling snow to my mechanic's - they were supposed to be open at 7:30, but the guys were both late. Bad traffic I guess. They arrived at 7:45, and thankfully got the part, and I was on my way to work by 9 a.m - with a working heater - yay! The snow fell and fell all day, and work was boring and slow; I stopped on the way home for Indian food and red wine, and had a nice night watching Hot Fuzz and sleeping early.
oh and by the way, Hot Fuzz is quite a funny movie - not as perfectly clever and hilarious as Shawn of the Dead , the other venture by the same directing and acting team, but still entertaining. I was a bit surprised when it totally changed it's direction midway through and became a complete bloodbath (with some quite comically gruesome decapitations too); it started out so humble and quiet, and then ended with quite a bang. I wish I could watch it again because I missed quite a bit of dialogue (those darn British accents - LOL), and it did have some very laugh out loud scenes that I want to see again. I'm looking forward to Simon Pegg in his new movie (directed by David Schwimmer of Friends), called Run Fatboy Run - and I just read that Simon Pegg is going to play Scotty in the Star Trek movie! Boy that's going to be quite the cast, with Zachary Quinto playing Spock and Eric Bana (who cares what he plays, we can just look at him, which is just FINE), and Winona Ryder, and even Leonard Nimoy!
But I digressed - I did warn you that my post would be random like this.
anyway, after the snowstorm, things settled down. And this is what it looked like at our apartment complex on Saturday morning
Pretty huh?
oh but it's not so pretty after it melts and leaves black slush and piles of dirty snow around which you need to walk to get to your car. fun stuff. when is summer coming?
okay what else is going on...
last week I had my "review" at work with my new "supervisor." She's about 25 years old, a well-known party girl who is very involved with a guy in the criminal department (oh, office romances), and is a total twit. How did she become my supervisor? Maybe I can write about it on another day, but suffice to say, it's very silly to report to her, and to have her reviewing my performance when she can't even spell the names of our clients. Seriously! But the review itself was painless. Of course they think that my work is fantastic, and they couldn't survive without me, and they want me to do lots of projects and take on more responsibility. Why then are they giving me only a 3 percent raise? I guess I can be happy for any raise, but I'm still not earning what I deserve with my experience and my education. My job is a joke, but given the economy and how difficult it is to find another, I'll stick with it for a while, until I have more ability to search for something in the legal field.
I got so organized this weekend, getting my tax forms ready to mail (evil IRS!!!), getting my passport form filled out (passport expires next month and who knows when I'll travel again), getting my apartment cleaned and all my clothes washed, and even buying new clothes at Old Navy (well three new shirts, which were all dirt cheap!). today I met my friend Sarah for lunch at Houlihan's - I ate way way too much including a banana bread pudding for dessert, had a yummy strawberry and basil lemonade (with gin), and then bought two books at Border's (both on sale) - one by my favorite author Paolo Coelho called "The Devil and Miss Prym" and one by Haruki Murakami called "Kafka on the Shore" which is supposed to be amazing (and disturbing).
My college is on Spring Break this week, so no class tomorrow. I do have an assignment to email my teacher,and another due next week, so it's not a real break. But it's nice to have a night off. We have a major project due at the end of the semester, which will involve visiting the law libraries of a big law school downtown (our library is really limited), so that will begin after the break. I'm a bit anxious about it, but I think I'll do fine. Writing is easy for me. But it's the research that takes time and skill. Wish me luck!
I've been watching lots of movies lately and not writing about them. I watched David Lynch's Inland Empire about a month ago and was going to write about it so that
galactic_jack could help me to interpret it's meanings. But I got so busy and distracted that I never did write about it. I'm so lazy! I still plan to write about it though - and I want to write my feelings about No Country for Old Men, Rendition, Reign Over Me, and The Simpson's Movie , all of which I enjoyed to some extent. Anyone interested in movie reviews, tune in tomorrow (if I'm that organized)... Finally I have some music recommendations: Radiohead's "In Rainbows" (which I know is quite old by now) is amazing!! and Herbie Hancock's tribute to Joni Mitchell "The River: The Joni Letters" is a work of art. Great stuff.
well that's about it. I've got to go and call my sister, do my assignment, and sleep.
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